Death Turns the Tables (1941), also published under the title The Seat of the Scornful, is a detective novel by John Dickson Carr.

He also believes that he can pay off handsome Anthony Morrell to break off his engagement with the judge's daughter Constance, in the hopes that Constance will marry the judge's assistant Fred Barlow (which would very much displease wealthy society girl Jane Tennant, who loves Barlow).

However, there are a few problems that will stand in the way of that arrangement; notably, that the judge is broke and Tony Morrell cannot be bought off, although he is known to enjoy exacting revenge for slights both real and imagined.

When Morrell is found dead in the Iretons' seaside cottage, a great deal of circumstantial evidence points to the judge, who cannot think of how to divert suspicion.

[3] In 2022, the British Library published a new edition, also titled The Seat of the Scornful, for their Crime Classics reprint series.